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Weechat (and IRC clients in general) by default are quite insecure, and will give a lot of information about your setup when proded. This allows an adversary to build a better profile of your system. It is possible to reduce this in Weechat by performing the following:

'''Note:''' the " " in steps 1 and 2 is simply a filler space and can be changed to suit your needs (though keeping them blank is recommended). For an example of how this appears, a quit message will come up: {{{* user has quit (" ") }}}